Winter Reading Wrap Up and Spring Book Hopefuls




Today I am sharing all the books I read this winter and my “hopefuls” for this spring. My hopefuls list is really of books I know I want to read so I’ve set them aside to choose from in March, April, and May. I’m a mood reader so sometimes I get to them and sometimes I don’t.

As usual, I didn’t read as many in Winter as I hoped I would, but I enjoyed the ones I did read.

Winter Reads:

Christmas In Harmony by Philip Gulley

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family/Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

Waiting for Christmas by Lynn Austin

My Beloved by Jan Karon

Miss Read’s Village School by Miss Read

Miss Read’s Village Diary by Miss Read

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie

Murder, She Wrote: Bullets and Brandy by Donald Bain

Spring hopefuls:

The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon (just finished)

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

A Damsel In Distress by P.G. Wodehouse

Bombs on Auntie Dainty by Judith Kerr

The Honorable Imposter by Gilbert Morris

Nancy Drew: Nancy’s Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene

Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed by Donald Bain

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Enchanted April by Elizbeth Van Arnim

A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

‘Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara (currently reading)

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (just started)

An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (I will be reading this one slowly so probably beyond Spring)

Thrush Green by Miss Read

Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (already half way through after starting it a month ago)

Heidi by Johanna Spry (this will be a buddy read with Erin)

What books are you looking forward to reading this spring? Anything special?

Top Ten Tuesday: My Spring TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Today’s prompt is: Books on my spring TBR list

I don’t often stick to my TBR for any particular season (see my post from yesterday for more info on that) but I like to make the list to remind me of books I’d like to read next. I consider it my “choose from” pile.

I have a list of 14 books I plan to choose from for Spring, but I know that list will change and adapt throughout the next two and a half months.

For today I will list my ten main books and then four “honorable mentions” so to speak.

Village Diary by Miss Read

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Spill the Jackpot by Erle Stanley Gardner

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

Between The Sea and Sound by Amanda Cox

‘Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara

Sabotage at Cedar Creek by Janice Thompson

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus

Four others I might choose from this spring include:

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

Grantchester: The Shadow of Death by James Runcie

Passport To Romance by Betty Cavanna

Finding Lady Enderly by Joanna Davidson Politano

What books are you hoping to read soon?